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Definition of Complin
1. Noun. Last of the seven canonical hours just before retiring.
Definition of Complin
1. compline [n -S] - See also: compline
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complin
Literary usage of Complin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw by Richard Crashaw (1858)
"complin. The Versicle. OKD, by Thy sweet and saving The ... The complin hour
comes last, to call Us to our own life's funeral. Ah, heartless task ! yet hope ..."
2. A Concise Manual of the Law Relating to Vendors and Purchasers of Real Property by Henry Seaborne, William Arnold Jolly (1884)
"... during the existence of the term, but (t) Blackston v. Morland, 2 Ch. («)
Standen v. Christmas, 10 Ca. 20; Goddard v. complin, 1 QB 135. Ch. Ca. 119. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court by John Peter De Gex, Steuart Macnaghten, Alexander Gordon, Great Britain Court of Chancery, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1872)
"The interest * of complin under this security * 182 had become vested in his
representative Mr. Cobb, one of the defendants, — the present respondent,—with ..."
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